Myron Mixon was quite literally born to barbecue. His father, Jack, owned a barbecue take-out business in Vienna, Georgia, which Myron helped run. His parents started selling Jack's Old South Barbecue Sauce, and after his father died in 1996, Myron thought that by entering competitions he could sell some sauce. He was hooked. He has appeared on the Today show, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.

Kelly Alexander is a former editor at Saveur and Food & Wine magazines, and her work has appeared in the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, Gourmet , and Newsweek , among others. She also teaches food writing at Duke University and is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.